Rapid strep A test

Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.

Model: claude-haiku-5-5
Provider: anthropic
API: message_batches
Reasoning effort: low
Max output tokens: 4096
Prompt version (hash): 444523875572
Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

HC OPTICAL STREP

Payers reporting CPT 87880

Payer pricing summary

Low

Average

$575

Median

$49

High

$12.3k

Payer rate distribution

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1	Molina fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	307	$18	$19	$11	56%	778–832	$2 – $193
2	UnitedHealthcare fee schedule · outpatient · +38 other terms	827	$17	$20	$18	92%	649–955	$1 – $395
3	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +33 other terms	552	$24	$39	$34	88%	567–684	$1 – $282
4	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	531	$33	$36	$29	80%	265–355	$5 – $200
5	Anthem fee schedule · outpatient · +31 other terms	232	$19	$37	$37	101%	161–278	$3 – $489
6	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +30 other terms	568	$17	$32	$38	117%	102–174	$4 – $380
7	Bcbs Al facility · other · outpatient · +4 other terms	4	$10	$11	$1	10%	90–108	$10 – $12
8	Aetna fee schedule · outpatient · +34 other terms	755	$21	$48	$221	464%	83–479	$0 – $8.4k
9	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	111	$17	$27	$35	129%	66–84	$5 – $242
10	Bcbs Ar fee schedule · both	1	$19	$19	—	—	15	$19 – $19
11	Superior Healthplan fee schedule · outpatient · +6 other terms	66	$17	$50	$37	75%	3–30	$14 – $129
12	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	104	$17	$20	$12	59%	2–20	$15 – $83
13	First Health fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	62	$33	$52	$93	180%	2–20	$9 – $641
14	Regence professional · fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	35	$17	$17	$2	13%	2–20	$10 – $21
15	Bcbs Mo professional · other · both · +2 other terms	2	$29	$29	—	—	2–20	$29 – $29
16	Cigna Healthspring fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	141	$17	$17	$2	11%	1–10	$10 – $28
17	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	122	$15	$21	$40	192%	1–10	$7 – $395
18	Wellmark facility · fee schedule · both · +27 other terms	34	$24	$34	$22	64%	1–10	$14 – $111
19	WellCare fee schedule · outpatient · +25 other terms	336	$17	$18	$6	32%	—	$3 – $86
20	Devoted fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	193	$17	$17	$0	2%	—	$16 – $19
21	Oscar fee schedule · outpatient · +21 other terms	169	$32	$35	$12	35%	—	$4 – $51
22	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +23 other terms	131	$29	$28	$8	28%	—	$2 – $42
23	Tricare facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +22 other terms	109	$16	$18	$15	84%	—	$4 – $162
24	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	106	$79	$93	$119	127%	—	$4 – $997
25	Highmark facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	77	$25	$34	$30	89%	—	$7 – $136

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